Saturday, March 5, 2011

The band debuted five new songs from the forthcoming album at the Planet Hollywood Resort & Casino in Las Vegas a few weeks ago, and solid, quality footage has surfaced.

“Eclipse” marks the second record with Arnel Pineda, following 2008’s “Revelation.”

The Kevin Shirley-produced album is being billed by guitarist Neal Schon as a rock record. “It sounds amazing,” Schon told VH1. “I’m in love with the record, which I haven’t said for a long time. I really fought for this record to be the way it is. It’s a rock record. It’s built for the places we’re about to play.”

“We’re playing a lot of big shows – South America and Europe – and we’re going to be touring the whole world on and off for two years,” continued Schon. “So with the addition of Arnel, we’ve become more of an international band which has been really great. We busted all kinds of markets wide open. So I wrote for what I felt we were missing in our show. We've got a lot of hits to play, and we have to play those, but there's plenty of time to do some new stuff, too, so we're gonna mix it up."

In North America, “Eclipse” the album will be available exclusively at Walmart, while Frontiers Records will release the CD in the rest of the world.